Licker-in cloth.



LOUIS STOGKER, OF GRAHAMTON, KENTUCKY.

LIGKER-IN CLOTH.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed .Tune 21, 1913.

Patented June 9, 191.4.

Serial No. 775,160.

To all flu/ioni, it may concern Be it known that I, LOUIS S'rociinn, acitizen of the United States, residing at Grahamton, in the county ofMeade and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Licker-In Cloth, of which the following is a specification,:reference being had to the accompanying drawmg.

My improvement relates to lickerin cloth applied to the cylinders ofmachines used in the various well-l nown `textile operations.

The object of the invention is to provide a lickerin cloth which may be`easily made and easily and accurately applied to the cyl inders, have apositive arrangement of teeth, and be strong and durable.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l. is a plan of a portion of acylinder having my improved lickerin cloth applied thereto; Fig. 2 is asection on the line, Q--2, of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a side elevation of apiece of the lickerin cloth. The drawings are all en larged.

Referring first to Fig. l of the drawings, the cloth consists of aribbon-like sheet metal strip having parallel edges and adapted to bewound around a cylinder, either in a plane which is perpendicular to thecylinder axis or spirally. If the latter form, t-he ribbon-like stripmay be of indefinite length, and if the former, a plurality of stripseach just long enough toil-each around the cylinder can be usedl Ineither ease, the turns or coils of the cloth are preferably broughttogether edge-to-edge, as shown in Figs. l and 2. Along each side edgeof each such strip or strips are teeth integral with the strip. Saidstrip constitutes a broad, flat, and firm base for the teeth locatedthereon and said teeth are arranged in rows, and the points of the teethin each row are so positioned laterally as to produce even spacingbetween the rows of points on the cylinder, as hereinafter described.

A is the strip. The` teeth, Gr, G, are formed by cutting triangularpieces out of each edge of a sheet, and then bendingupward thetriangular pieces which remained between the spaces from which thetriangular pieces were taken out. Instead of bend ing the pieces whichare to form theteeth directly upward so as to leave the teeth atopposite sides of thc strips, A, as far from each other at their pointsas they are at the base, said pieces are bent inward and toward eachother at their bases and then extended upward in planes which areperpendicular to the strip and midway between its edges and its middle.The line, D1-I), in Figs. l and 2 indicates such middle.

Vhen the cloth is thus formed and pieces are placed side by side, as inFigs. 1 and 2, the distance between the adjacent rows of teeth along adjoining edges of the strips will be the same as the distance between thetwo rows of teeth on the same strip. For example, the distance from theleft hand row of teeth on the left hand strip in Fig. 1 to the next rowon the same strip is the same as the distance from the latter row to thefirst or left hand row on the strip lying at the right of the firststrip. This uniformity of spacing is desirable for the sake of attaininguniformity in work and also to adapt the cylinder to receive between itsrows of teeth other teeth supported by some other portion or member ofthe machine for do'l'ling or other purposes.

My improved cloth is adapted to be formed rapidly and economically withautomatic machines having cutting and forming members for cutting thesheets, and bending the resulting free pieces into position to becometeeth, Gr.

The strip constituting the cloth may be easily applied to the cylinderin accurate and firm manner. The body of the strip constitutes a basefor supporting the teeth, G. And such base is relatively wide andtherefore makes a strong support for the teeth and `minimizes the effectof inaccuracies in the face of the cylinder or in the strip. Thus therows of teeth become evenly spaced on the cylinder.

The strip, A, may be secured to the cylinder in any suitable manner, asby means of glue or by nails, J, extending through the strips into thecylinder, I.

I claim as my invention,

A sheet metal lickerin cloth comprisinga flat, parallel-edged, ribbonbase and teeth integral with and located along each edge of said baseand bent inward and then upward into two planes which are perpendicularto day'of June, in the year one thousand nine the base and parallel toits edges and out hundred and thirteen.

said base approximately midway between its edges and its middle,substantially as de- LOUIS .STOGKER' scribed. Witnesses:

In testimony whereof I have signed my B. R. VALKER, name, in presence oftwo Witnesses, this 12 T. MAREUM.

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Washington, D. C.

